Short videos are becoming a mainstay of Chinese social media, especially on Weibo.com. A new investment in the company behind …

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Chinese Internet security software giant Qihoo 360 has appointed Chen Jie as new chief operating officer of the company, leading daily operations, effective immediately. Chen will directly report to Qihoo 360's chairman and chief executive officer Zhou Hongyi. Zhou comments that Chen is a reliable leader. Over the past few years, she showed extraordinary abilities, […]

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile announced its annual results for 2013 in Hong Kong, and those financial numbers did not impress. During the entire year of 2013, China Mobile's operating revenue was CNY630.2 billion, a year-on-year increase of 8.3%; but its net profit was CNY121.7 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 5.9%. This is reportedly the […]

Sina.com and Alipay.com announced that the two parties will realize full intercommunication between Sina Weibo and Alipay accounts to provide convenient Weibo payment services to users in China. With the cooperation, users will be able to complete online payments on the Weibo microblogging platform as well as use for offline daily retail consumption with the […]

Alibaba Group reportedly plans to acquire the Chinese mobile music player startup TTPod to enhance its exposure in the mobile sector. Though Alibaba has not yet published any official announcement of this purchase, a representative from its own music business division revealed to local media that the deal was almost closed. TTPod was founded in […]

Twitter's just-released initial public offering prospectus shows China is still an important deficit in its global growth strategy. In Twitter's F-1 IPO statement, the company said it is raising USD1 billion, which is largely a pro forma number until the company calculates fees and eyes its roadshow. The company recorded USD317 million in revenue in […]

An internal email from Chinese Web portal Sina.com has revealed structural changes at the company, including the establishment of a portal technology department. According to reports in Chinese local media, the email was sent by Cao Guowei, chief executive officer of Sina.com. Cao said that the company will establish a new portal technology department, which […]

Placing dogma over commerce, China's Internet overlords have apparently been throttling down the speeds of Internet activity within China over the past few days as the National Congress of the Communist Party of China gets underway in Beijing. Similar to many other instances over the past decade when important meetings or events took place in […]

Microsoft's tablet product Surface is expected to be launched in the Chinese market this month, and Suning may become the exclusive retail sales channel for this new product. Microsoft China and Suning are reportedly discussing related issues and the two parties will soon sign an agreement with Sina's technology channel, which will be the media […]

Intel, Sina, China Standard Software, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have jointly announced the establishment of China Open Source Cloud League. China Open Source Cloud League will be committed to the integration of enterprise users' demands for cloud computing infrastructure platforms. Based on the development and improvement of open-source frameworks like OpenStack, the league will […]

Sina.com and HTC have signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Taiwan, stating that the two parties will work together on product account systems, mobile payment systems, and customized devices. Under the agreement, Sina.com and HTC will establish a unified user authentication system. Based on this system, users will be able to use various services of […]

Whether related to the rumored murder charges against the wife of former Communist elite Bo Xilai or the earthquakes in Indonesia and Mexico over the last day, one thing is for sure: Internet connections to websites outside of China were intermittently not available to many users in China today. The problems were first noticed about […]

Chinese online media and mobile value-added services firm Sina Corporation says its profit fell more than 50% as it announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2011. While the company's net revenues grew 20% year over year to USD119.0 million, net income attributable to Sina for the second quarter of […]

Smartphone maker HTC and the Chinese Internet company Sina.com jointly held a cross-platform brand launch meeting in Beijing to promote the first Sina microblog-themed smartphone product in China. The two companies said that they will cooperate in product development and promotion in the future for their new social media smartphone. At the product launch meeting, […]

The microblog channel of Sina.com and China Telecom have signed an agreement to implement a cooperation for products based on the microblog services at Sina.com. Under the agreement, China Telecom's eSurfing users, broadband users, and fixed-line users will be able to log onto Sina microblog with their China Telecom accounts; meanwhile, China Telecom will open […]

Chinese online and wireless media company Sina Corporation says its profit fell on higher costs as it announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2011. For the first quarter of 2011, Sina reported net revenues of USD100.2 million, compared to USD85.0 million for the same period last year. Of that […]

Chinese social media websites are ablaze today with rumors, photos, and innuendo that at least one non-Chinese employee working for Apple was responsible for hitting customers waiting on line to buy the iPad 2 in Beijing. Though the iPad was released in other countries a couple months ago, it only legally became available in China […]

Chinese Internet company Sina.com has officially launched a new domain name, weibo.com, for its microblog product, and the company has also adopted a new logo for the social media business. To ensure the normal use of its microblog, Sina.com will run the old domain name and the new one concurrently for a certain period of […]

A representative in charge of the planning of China Mobile's online application store Mobile Market has revealed that the company's location-based service module is currently finishing its test phase, and will be launched next month. The development module of China Mobile's Mobile Market store is mainly designed for non-technical developers, who can directly create simple […]